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Masters Ski at Trapps

By Rosemary Shea-Cobb on 6 February, 2024 in Masters Blog

MNC Masters met at Trapps this past Sunday. We were greeted with a spectacular blue ski, no wind, clear and dry day. The group was equally balanced in numbers with skaters and classic skiers and broke off into two groups. It turned out that both groups had the same thing in mind- We passed and met up with each other in various spots. One group was headed down the Haul Road from the Cabin and the other coming up. After that, time was spent on the race course and various other lower trails. We even met up with MNC guest coaches Pennie and Leigh and sang Pennie ‘Happy Birthday’ in front of the yurt. Some of the group needed to leave around noon to tend to animals and children at home. Those with less commitments that day, enjoyed lunch at the Kaffeehaus together. A great ski on a beautiful bluebird day!

Masters’ Olympic Games Day

By Rosemary Shea-Cobb on 5 February, 2024 in Masters Blog

Last Tuesday, Masters afternoon and evening skiers tapped into their “inner child” and had an Olympic Games Day in honor of the Youth Olympics being held in South Korea. After forming teams and coming up with a team country and cheer, the teams competed in a cone shuttle relay, speedball and relay towing. Lots of fun for all and photos are below!

Relay towing.

Speedball on the penalty loop.

Cone shuttle relay.

Afternoon speedball.

High-speed towing relays!

Carpool to the Geschmossel

By Rosemary Shea-Cobb on 8 January, 2024 in Masters Blog

Do you have the day off on Monday 1/15? You could do the Geschmossel! The Geschmossel is a fun 12-15 km race in an iconic setting- beautiful Bretton Woods, NH. In the past we’ve done car pools over in the morning from Richmond Park and Ride and plan to do that again.

*1/08: Bretton Woods will get the same crazy weather we are about to get with rain, winds and snow. They may decide to cancel or post-pone the race and will make a decision on Friday. I will post here when I find out.

Details:

Registration: SkiReg link . Online registration closes Saturday 1/13 at 5 pm. There is day of race registration (costs more).

Coaches Going to Help Wax? Yes! Both Rosemary and Adam plan to go and bring wax benches, wax, and waxing know-how!

Carpooling: It takes about 2 hours from Richmond Park and Ride and you will want to get there 1.5 hours before the race. Coaches will try to get there a little earlier to figure out the wax of the day.

It’s more fun when you go with other people: Carpooling Sign-up Link

Bringing a treat to share for after makes it even more fun!

Wax Recommendation: Will be posted on Saturday on our website. Most likely you’ll want to put on some binder.

Master’s Distance Weekend Ski

By Rosemary Shea-Cobb on 18 December, 2023 in Masters Blog

A good sized group of masters showed up Sunday morning at Craftsbury on a beautiful blue sky day for our Master’s long distance ski. A freeze up after the most recent grooming made for challenging icy conditions for the first hour or more. Lots of laughs (screams?) were heard as skiers navigated some hard to control downhills. Surprisingly, ungroomed trails such as Dante’s and some of the open fields ended up being more skiable.

During the second half of the ski, things started to soften up a bit as the sun hit, and the conditions became friendly and fun. All agreed it was quite the adventure ski! Many clocked-in the longest distance skied yet this year 15K , 20K, 25K and more!” Good work to all the Masters!

Masters First Week: Dryland, Strength, Skating & Racing

By Rosemary Shea-Cobb on 11 December, 2023 in Juniors Training Schedule, Masters Blog

Masters Classic Warm-up

Masters’ Practices kicked off this past Tuesday with a fun classic warm-up and a hill bounding session. On Thursday, we time-shared the limited snow loop with BKL & Juniors and warmed up our no-pole skating, balance & V1 and then spent half the practice doing strength indoors. Some of our Masters kicked off their racing season too by skiing in the Kendall Memorial Skate Race on Sunday at Craftsbury. Congratulations to Steve Crafts, Daniel Schmidt and Sara Katz for getting out there and skiing hard on that very hilly North Course!